DHNE: Network Representation Learning Method for Dynamic Heterogeneous Networks

Abstract

Analyzing the rich information behind heterogeneous networks through network representation learning methods is signifcant for many application tasks such as link prediction, node classifcation and similarity research. As the networks evolve over times, the interactions among the nodes in networks make heterogeneous networks exhibit dynamic characteristics. However, almost all the existing heterogeneous network representation learning methods focus on static networks which ignore dynamic characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel approach DHNE to learn the representations of nodes in dynamic heterogeneous networks. The key idea of our approach is to construct comprehensive historical-current networks based on subgraphs of snapshots in time step to capture both the historical and current information in the dynamic heterogeneous network. And then under the guidance of meta paths, DHNE performs random walks on the constructed historical-current graphs to capture semantic information. After getting the node sequences through random walks, we propose the dynamic heterogeneous skip-gram model to learn the embeddings. Experiments on large-scale real-world networks demonstrate that the embeddings learned by the proposed DHNE model achieve better performances than state-of-the-art methods in various downstream tasks including node classifcation and visualization.